[Zope3-dev] Asyncore (and Twisted)

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 12:35:04 +0000


Shane Hathaway wrote:
> 
> Well, I don't think networking from threads is the real goal.  What's 
> important is that Zope's ZODB connections are scarce and precious, so 
> time spent in application code must be minimized.  To help achieve this, 
> Zope threads must never block for I/O except in rare cases.  Therefore 
> all input and output must be fully buffered.

How does this interact with the (admittedly edge) case of pages where you want 
to write the output bit by bit?
(I'm thinking things like the dots that ZUnit used to write out...)

cheers,

Chris